AKQA has announced the winner of the Cannes “Future Lions School of the Year.” This year, the honor goes to Miami Ad School Europe’s campus in Hamburg, Germany, which represented the most shortlisted finalists in global competition for this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. You might remember this school from having two students recently concoct the Facebook-connected bottle opener for Heineken.
This is the sixth year AKQA has hosted Future Lions, and in response to the award Niklas Frings-Rupp, Managing Director of Miami Ad School Europe in Hamburg said in a press release, “Being a finalist in Future Lions is already a huge achievement as it is a highly competitive show and displays the state of the art in communication. Becoming School of the Year and having the most shortlisted works in the competition is definitely something my business partner Oliver Voss and I have to think about how to properly celebrate.”